Famous Impostors
# Famous Impostors

Famous Impostors is the last of four non-fiction books completed by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. It features numerous historical impostors and hoaxes.

The first edition was published by the Sturgis & Walton Company of New York in November 1910. The British edition was published by Sidgwick & Jackson of London, also dated 1910, but printed in the United States. Newspaper and magazine coverage implies that it was published in January 1911.

## Contents

Dashed (—) annotations are by Wikipedia.

* Pretenders
   * Perkin Warbeck
   * The Hidden King — Sebastian of Portugal
   * Stephan Mali — Šćepan Mali
   * The False Dauphins
   * Princess Olive
* Practitioners of Magic
   * Paracelsus
   * Cagliostro
   * Mesmer
* The Wandering Jew
* John Law
* Witchcraft and Clairvoyance
   * Witches
   * Doctor Dee
   * La Voisin
   * Sir Edward Kelley
   * Mother Damnable - a brewer and owner of todays The World's End, Camden. Suspected witch after her death.
   * Matthew Hopkins
* Arthur Orton (Tichborne claimant)
* Women as Men
   * The Motive for Disguise
   * Hannah Snell
   * La Maupin
   * Mary East
* Hoaxes, Etc.
   * Two London Hoaxes — includes the Berners Street hoax
   * The Cat Hoax — a scam to buy cats brought to a certain address
   * The Military Review — a false parade announced at 1812
   * The Toll-Gate — a practical joke played by Charles Mayne Young for not paying a toll
   * The Marriage Hoax — a marriage stopped by the false claim that the groom already had a wife and children
   * Buried Treasure — a false treasure unearthed by a victim and a swindler, which gives his share to the victim in exchange for something of value
   * Dean Swift's Hoax — an alleged letter written by a criminal about his accomplices and hideouts
   * Hoaxed Burglars — thieves steal a secure box containing lead
   * Bogus Sausages — sausages are discovered to be skins filled with bread
   * The Moon Hoax
* Chevalier d'Eon
* The Bisley Boy — was Queen Elizabeth I of England a man?
